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149 “I’m hot, I’m miserable”: Los Angeles Times, July 19, 1964.
149 “Where is the USA?”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 165.
149 “decent middle-class”: Ibid., p. 288-89.
149 “running my rear end off”: Winn, correspondence, mid-July 1964.
150 “Dad,” Fred wrote home: Winn, correspondence, July 14, 1964.
150 “dirty” and “unclean”: New York Times, July 17, 1964.
150 “What happened in Neshoba”: Charlie Capps Jr., personal interview, September 11, 2008.
150 “We were a small town”: Ibid.
150 “to keep a lid on things”: Fred Bright Winn, e-mail, May 26, 2008.
151 “I was and am furious”: Winn, correspondence, July 14, 1964.
INTERLUDE: “Another So-Called ‘Freedom Day’ ”
152 “I’m going to wash the black off of you”: New York Times, July 17, 1964.
152 “Come on, shoot another nigger!”: “Worse Than Mississippi?” Time, July 24, 1964.
153 “Everybody stopped worrying”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 103.
153 “another so-called ‘Freedom Day’ ”: Greenwood Commonwealth, July 15, 1964.
154 “our Gettysburg”: Holland, From the Mississippi Delta, p. 243.
154 “Get up and look out the window”: Ibid., p. 218.
154 “We will not let it stop us”: SNCC Papers, reel 39.
154 “Everyone?”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 136.
155 “I want to go to jail”: Ibid.
155 “You are free to go and register”: Greenwood Commonwealth, July 17, 1964.
156 “Jim Crow . . . Must GO!”: Sugarman, Stranger at the Gates, p. 160.
156 “I think it would look very spontaneous”: Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), p. 385.
157 “You mean that’s President and Mrs. Johnson?”: New York Times, July 17, 1964.
157 “They’re always doing something”: New York Times, August 3, 1964.
157 “the deep feeling of regret”: New York Times, July 16, 1964.
157 Back Door to Hell: Internet Movie Data Base, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057864/.
158 “Caution: Weird Load”: Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (New York: Bantam, 1968), p. 63.
158 “A Vote for Barry”: Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda, The Art of the Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998), p. 176.
158 “Furthur”: Wolfe, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, p. 63.
158 “It’s too much like”: Louis Harris, “The Backlash Issue,” Newsweek, July 13, 1964, p. 24.
159 “The denial of voting rights”: Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1964.
159 “The President should now use”: Huie, Three Lives, p. 150.
159 “Without condoning racist attitudes”: Wall Street Journal, June 30, 1964.
159 “It is a dreadful thing to say”: Washington Post, June 29, 1964.
159 “Unlike the democratic absolutists”: Boston Globe, July 4, 1964.
159 “outraged and disgusted”: Letters, Newsweek, July 17, 1964.
159 “By what stretch of the imagination”: New York Times, July 10, 1964.
159 “Lincoln did this country”: Letters, Life, July 24, 1964.
160 “Could you possibly bring yourselves”: Letters, Newsweek, July 27, 1964, p. 2.
160 “I would say”: Hartford Courant, July 7, 1964.
160 “clear that the whole scheme”: Greenwood Commonwealth, July 17, 1964.
160 “I turned around”: Linda Wetmore, personal interview, March 27, 2008.
161 “Sounds like rubbing”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 126.
161 “nigger huggers”: Ibid., p. 139.
161 “I am proud”: Delta Democrat-Times, July 17, 1964.
163 “that son-of-a-bitch”:New York Times, July 16, 1964.
163 “extremists . . . who have nothing in common”: Christian Science Monitor, July 17, 1964.
163 “The nigger issue”: Perlstein, Before the Storm, p. 374.
164 “I was always complaining”: Richard Beymer, personal interview, July 6, 2008.
164 “Beymer drove”: Congressman Barney Frank, personal interview, June 18, 2008.
164 “off the map”: WATS Line, July 16, 1964.
165 “We are not going to eat”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 144.
165 “We won’t eat tomorrow”: Ibid., p. 145.
Book Two
CHAPTER SEVEN: “Walk Together, Children”
169 “Three are missing, Lord